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State Budget Passes Despite Protests

New York has a new state budget. The spending plan passed on time in the early hours of Thursday morning, but the news was overshadowed by noisy day-long protests at the Capitol.

As Capitol Bureau Correspondent Karen DeWitt reports from Albany, Hundreds of protesters, upset with budget cuts, marched and chanted, and decried the near- shutdown of access to the Senate and Assembly chambers.